The Cosmic Music Box

Product Overview

The project started off by acoustically recording 21 tine actuations from a disassembled music box mechanism placed on a wooden sounding board using both conventional condenser and contact microphones.

The sound of the clockwork motor and air brake mechanisms was also captured. A synthesized halo effect was created to blend with the tines by capturing several beating sine waves from a 1960’s tube based dual tone generator which were fed through the filter stages of a Minimoog with the filter in near resonance.

FULL version of Kontakt please. Not Kontakt player

EFFECTS PAGE

A second page was developed to permit the user to dial in various effects such as chorus, phaser, delay and reverb…

A user interface was devised to implement a randomised delay feature between two groups of acoustic tine instruments to create a plink effect and to blend the halo and motor effects together to form The Cosmic Music Box…

COSMIC!

Download Contents:

51 Samples

Cosmic Music Box GUI

5 Example Instrument Patches

User Manual

Demo

Credits:

Dan Wilson Sound, Patch Design & Demo

Stephen Howell GUI Design & Graphics

Mario Krušelj GUI Script

Reviews

(5)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Cosmic Sounds!

Really great and ethereal sound. Truly deserves its name! Not that much of soundvariation, but who can complain at this price. Absolutely recommended.

Paul Lebküchner

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

So cool and a bit creepy sounding.

I used this in a track right away. It's a classic music box sound but with tons of extra atmosphere and vibe. Love it.

Jacob Golden

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Perfect for dreams and nightmares

turn off the mechanical noise to add melodies to your dreamscapes or leave the gears whirring to add dream to your nightmares.

Colin Mansfield

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Enjoying this little gem!

Great little instrument with lots of creative adjustments that can be made.